Murho Estate
Murho Estate was a chieftaincy and later became a Zamindari (estate) of Ahir in erstwhile Bhagalpur district of Bihar (now in Madhepura district).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IshIoRNP-bkC|title=IshIoRNP-BKC}}{{Cite web|title=A village that symbolises Bihar|url=https://www.rediff.com/election/2005/feb/11spec2.htm|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.rediff.com}}{{Cite web|title=Murho|url=http://wikimapia.org/15643355/Murho|access-date=2021-03-08|website=wikimapia.org|language=en}}
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The name of the estate derives from a Murho village of Madhepura District.{{Cite web|title=Pin Code: MURHO, MADHEPURA, BIHAR, India, Pincode.net.in|url=https://pincode.net.in/BIHAR/MADHEPURA/M/MURHO|access-date=2021-03-08|website=pincode.net.in}} Members of the Murho family were landlords of the Kosi division.{{Cite book|last=Witsoe|first=Jeffrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQcGAQAAQBAJ|title=Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India|date=2013-11-05|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-06350-8|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=Arun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rT2xWp_iTCYC|title=Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar|date=2011|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-670-08459-3|language=en}}
History
The Murho Zamindari (Estate) was ruled by Majhraut clan Of Yadava.{{Cite book|last1=Bihar (India)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCZuAAAAMAAJ|title=Bihar District Gazetteers: Bhagalpur|last2=Choudhury|first2=Pranab Chandra Roy|date=1957|publisher=Superintendent, Secretariat Press, Bihar|language=en}}
- Ras Bihari Lal Mandal
Babu Rasbihari Lal was an ardent freedom fighter and social reformer, according to litterateur Dr. Bhupendra Narayan Yadav Madhepuri, Rasbihari Babu was scholarly in many languages like Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, English, French and Sanskrit.{{Cite web|title=बाबू रासबिहारी लाल मंडल की पुण्यतिथि मनी|url=https://www.livehindustan.com/bihar/madhepura/story-death-anniversary-of-babu-rasbihari-lal-mandal-3450269.html|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Hindustan|language=hindi}}
- Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal
Chairman of Mandal Commission and former Chief Minister of Bihar, Babu B.P. Mandal was born in this zamindar family.{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=Arun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rT2xWp_iTCYC|title=Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar|date=2011|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-670-08459-3|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2020-04-10|title=बिन्देश्वरी प्रसाद मंडल की जीवनी- Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal Biography In Hindi|url=https://www.newstrend.news/339989/bindeshwari-prasad-mandal-biography-hindi/|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Newstrend|language=hi-IN}}{{Cite web|date=2020-10-23|title=In Bihar, the importance of being Nitish Kumar|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/in-bihar-the-importance-of-being-nitish-kumar/story-L9PKYIYnykA7FWPEPrVpsN.html|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Maheshwari|first=Shriram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q_A5CbznVcC&q=mandal+commission&pg=PA1|title=The Mandal Commission and Mandalisation: A Critique|date=1991|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-338-2|language=en}} He was the son of Zamindar Babu Ras Bihari Lal Mandal.